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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 20
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Laws revealed for selection of soldiers and making of war—Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites shall be utterly destroyed.
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When</span> thou goest out to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 37; D&C 105: 14.">battle</a> against thine enemies, and seest horses, and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/20/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 17: 18.">chariots</a>, <i>and</i> a people more than thou, be not <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/20/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Courage.">afraid</a> of them: for the <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/20/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Sam. 22: 3."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> thy God <i>is</i> with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people.
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And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God <i>is</i> he that goeth with you, to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 23: 10.">fight</a> for you against your enemies, to save you.
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&#182; And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man <i>is there</i> that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it?  let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
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And what man <i>is he</i> that hath planted a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 9: 7.">vineyard</a>, and hath not <i>yet</i> eaten of it?  let him <i>also</i> go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
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And what man <i>is there</i> that hath betrothed a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 24: 5.">wife</a>, and hath not taken her?  let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
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And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man <i>is there that is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 7: 3.">fearful</a> and fainthearted?  let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/20/8b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB melt like his; i.e. lest they all lost their courage.">faint</a> as well as his heart.
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And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
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&#182; When thou comest nigh unto a city to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG War.">fight</a> against it, then proclaim <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/20/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Peace; TG Peacemakers.">peace</a> unto it.
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And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, <i>that</i> all the people <i>that is</i> found therein shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR servants, in tribute.">tributaries</a> unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
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And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
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And when the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
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But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, <i>even</i> all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE consume, enjoy.">eat</a> the spoil of thine enemies, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath given thee.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities <i>which are</i> very far off from thee, which <i>are</i> not of the cities of these nations.
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But of the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 11: 14.">cities</a> of these people, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God doth give thee <i>for</i> an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
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But thou shalt utterly <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 10: 40 (40-43); Josh. 11: 12 (11-12).">destroy</a> them; <i>namely,</i> the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath commanded thee:
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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God.
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&#182; When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (<sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB for are the trees in the field men, that you should besiege them?.">for</a> the tree of the field <i>is</i> man’s <i>life)</i> to employ <i>them</i> in the siege:
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Only the trees which thou knowest that they <i>be</i> not trees for <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/20/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB food.">meat</a>, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
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